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can you get aids from a mosquito?

brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
i just started getting bit by mosquitos tonight and then i thought - what if this mosquito just got blood from someone who had aids???

does anyone know if this is possible or has happened before? because if so i am really gonna have to load up on the bug spray. and probably wear hoodies in the summer 🙁
 
Look at all the other diseases a mosquito can spread, why would HIV be any different? You need to bath in OFF! if you want a chance at a normal life. Just fill your tub with the stuff and splash around a bit before you leave the house.
 
momeNt said:
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm

Shaky science at best, so I would just be on the safe side and say yes, you can.
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I like how this pretends to be scientific and yet mistakenly calls HIV "AIDS" routinely. Also, this...

"Insect-borne disease agents that have the ability to be transferred from one individual to the next via contaminated mouthparts must circulate at very high levels in the bloodstream of their host. Transfer by mouthpart contamination requires sufficient infectious particles to initiate a new infection. The exact number of infectious particles varies from one disease to the next."

Uhh, so tapeworms and heartworms have must pump a host's blood full of eggs or larvae to spread by flea and mosquito then. 🙄 A dog can often get tapeworm from a cat by eating a flea, which means that there must have been enough in the blood for that tiny little flea meal to contain it. It is a normal transmission vector. Mosquitos spread heartworm the same way. I highly doubt a host's blood is made of a significant portion of reproductive parts for either of these parasites, but it's obviously enough to spread anyway.
 
CZroe said:
I like how this pretends to be scientific and yet mistakenly calls HIV "AIDS" routinely. Also, this...

"Insect-borne disease agents that have the ability to be transferred from one individual to the next via contaminated mouthparts must circulate at very high levels in the bloodstream of their host. Transfer by mouthpart contamination requires sufficient infectious particles to initiate a new infection. The exact number of infectious particles varies from one disease to the next."

Uhh, so tapeworms and heartworms have must pump a host's blood full of eggs or larvae to spread by flea and mosquito then. 🙄 A dog can often get tapeworm from a cat by eating a flea, which means that there must have been enough in the blood for that tiny little flea meal to contain it. It is a normal transmission vector. Mosquitos spread heartworm the same way. I highly doubt a host's blood is made of a significant portion of reproductive parts for either of these parasites, but it's obviously enough to spread anyway.
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You're skipping over some important stuff, and comparing apples to oranges.

HIV levels aren't particularly high in blood.

HIV doesn't survive long in insects (compared to malaria, which replicates in mosquitos and parasite larvae which are very resilient).

Minimum infectious dose - a mosquito is unlikely to pick up much HIV from a meal to begin with (as above). Likely doesn't feed for a while after (again, HIV doesn't survive well or replicate in the mosquito). May not be reintroduced well or at all through the next bite in any case (note that malaria specifically migrates to salivary fluid for transmission)

I don't think there's been a reported case of mosquito borne transmission. Even in Africa where HIV infection rates can be high and mosquitoes pretty common, the cases trace back through human-human contact.
 
Gibsons said:
You're skipping over some important stuff, and comparing apples to oranges.

HIV levels aren't particularly high in blood.

HIV doesn't survive long in insects (compared to malaria, which replicates in mosquitos and parasite larvae which are very resilient).

Minimum infectious dose - a mosquito is unlikely to pick up much HIV from a meal to begin with (as above). Likely doesn't feed for a while after (again, HIV doesn't survive well or replicate in the mosquito). May not be reintroduced well or at all through the next bite in any case (note that malaria specifically migrates to salivary fluid for transmission)

I don't think there's been a reported case of mosquito borne transmission. Even in Africa where HIV infection rates can be high and mosquitoes pretty common, the cases trace back through human-human contact.
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I wasn't serious. After all, heartworms and tape worms obviously exist in enough volume to spread. That said, that particular part was talking about spreading by mouth parts without ingesting it.
 
retroviruses are hilariously fragile when not working within a host organism. Simply expose that HIV fucker to a little air for a few minutes and it's toast.

Further, if it doesn't have the ability to replicate fully (as if in a vector organism), then it is toast.


So: No.
 
zinfamous said:
retroviruses are hilariously fragile when not working within a host organism. Simply expose that HIV fucker to a little air for a few minutes and it's toast.

Further, if it doesn't have the ability to replicate fully (as if in a vector organism), then it is toast.


So: No.
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As far as I'm concerned, Zin's word on this matter is final.
 
Large scale epidemiologic data suggests that even in areas full of HIV patients and heavy mosquito population, HIV is not spread by mosquitos.

Matthew Pegher, D.O.
Emergency medicine/Internal medicine
 
mattpegher said:
Large scale epidemiologic data suggests that even in areas full of HIV patients and heavy mosquito population, HIV is not spread by mosquitos.

Matthew Pegher, D.O.
Emergency medicine/Internal medicine
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Sure...keep spreading the lies to placate the sheep...if word ever got out that HIV could indeed be spread by mosquitoes, people would riot in the streets...and any/all HIV/AIDS patients would have an even shorter life expectancy.













Troll, troll, troll the boat...gently down the stream...
 
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